Word: foolishness
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This year's Tiger is a toothless version of the beast that terrorized the bottom of the Ivy League last season, but it wears a foolish grin as a result of its 5-3 record and third place ranking. Despite the loss of the league-leading line of last season--John McBride, John Pell and Pete Cook--Princeton already has posted its best Ivy record since...
...This (Ray Conniff Orchestra and Chorus; Columbia). Suds and saccharin by one of the slickest arrangers in the business. Filtered through the echo chamber of the mind, Conniff's heavily percussioned memories sound like nobody else's, but they bear some familiar titles: Moments to Remember, My Foolish Heart, No Other Love...
...needed to coordinate policy in Washington, though that is also true. The question is whether Kennedy will be pressured into the kind of thinking that characterized and crippled the conduct of diplomacy under Eisenhower. Man-to-man talks gave leaders valuable knowledge of each other, but they bred foolish hopes and symbolic solutions to grave problems. The personal touch, the smile to the cheering crowds, the joint communique--all are hallmarks of a tradition which thinks reassuring people more important than facing reality...
...students. TOCSIN does not have a policy of non-cooperation with other groups. Though differences between TOCSIN and SANE have made autonomy logical for the Harvard group, TOCSIN shares with SANE a desire to organize effective public pressure on specific political issues. In this case, it would have been foolish for TOCSIN to duplicate SANE's excellent study of the Civil Defense Issue...
Nothing is more foolish, Jaspers feels, than to listen to scientists on these ultimate questions. That is to confuse technical means with moral ends. To know the limits of know-how is the beginning of know-why. Philosophy, the kind that every man consciously or unconsciously possesses, "enables man to ascertain what exists and what he wants . . . Man can see what matters, can reflect, can change and can act. What happens if he does not is his fault, not blind fate...